I'm using xargs with the option --max-args=0 (alternatively -P 0).
However, the output of the processes is merged into the stdout stream without regard for proper line separation. So I'll often end ...

If I close the virtual terminal, where some process was started, does the output just go straight to /dev/null, or can it pollute memory somehow?
Can I anyhow grab the output to continue reading it at ...

I use Django framework on webfaction and have 5 different cron jobs. One of them lasts much longer than others and sometimes gets stuck (30-120 seconds or more).
I have already set that cron job to ...

Are there any tools that improve the readability of ps in the same spirit as ack for grep?
This would be especially on OS X where ps does not even have options such as --sort user.
So far the nicest ...

On my Lenovo T400 and Ubuntu, the light for hard drive writing keeps flashing. I was wondering if in Linux it is possible to find out what processes are doing I/O to the hard drive? Just like by top, ...

I would like to know which process has created files on os X 10.6. I'm trying DTrace, which probably will give the right answer, but I have not eyes to see the method. I'm doing this because I think ...

We have an app testApp. We have a folder called notRestricted in the directory where we run app from. We want to limit access of the app to file system so that app could write only to that folder (we ...

I have configured my webservers cron jobs to trigger some php script, every 15min, but sometimes the script takes morethan 15 min to complete execution, by the time another process of the same script ...

Here is the situation. I left my pc at home doing an rsync from a 2TB hard drive to another 2TB hard drive (it's going to take a while since they are both USB 2.0). I am now at work and I have ssh-ed ...

I have some bots, which are run by the System scheduler at given time interval. But sometimes due to some logical error I have to stop these bots manually. How can I find these processes run by the ...

Prior to the Linux 2.6 kernel, struct task_struct was present at the end of the kernel stack of each process. There was no thread_info struct concept. But in Linux 2.6 kernel, instead of task_struct ...

I'm reading "The art of exploitation" and would like to try some experiments, including reading from and writing to various memory address. I've created some simple programs and trying to overwrite ...

I want to obtain information about memory used by different users and different processes which users are running and statistics about those processes like memory consumption, execution speed, etc., ...

My server program received a SIGTERM and stopped (with exit code 0). I am surprised by this, as I am pretty sure that there was plenty of memory for it. Under what conditions does linux (busybox) send ...